Iphone 4S / iOS5 - Battery drain / issues - An idea Ihaven't seen anywhere yet (17th October 2011)....

Well you dont have to turn it all off, but you cant have every single thing on either. There has to be some balance. I have badges on for some stuff, alerts for other stuff, location services on for others. I also leave my wifi on almost all the time and use bluetooth to play music at my desk 2-3 hrs a day or more. I disable push for everything because push is a battery hog on any device out there, and its useless to me. With the volume of email I get at work, theres no point knowing every time I have a mail.

I agree with most posts so far. It would be nice to be able to use all the new and neat features on ios5. Why have them if we can't use them without draining the battery? Why doesn't iCloud have a series of options like updating iCloud only once per day sometime at night when asleep. Or semi frequently like a few times per day rather than constantly?

I had battery issues also. It ended up being that the temperature of my phone was over heating. Anyway I took it to apple store and they are amazing. I walked away with a new phone. Thank you apple for all of your support.

You'll have to do that for pretty much every smart phone that you expect to last a day or more... it's just the way things are right now or perhaps you could try looking at Blackberry, I think they're still best in class for battery life but other email/calendar/address book and lite web surfing don't expect much. It's a give and take... pretty graphics/animations + high resolition display requires more power to drive them.

Went to bed at midnight with iPhone 4s battery at 100%. Woke at 7am to find phone completely dead and battery fully discharged. Have recharged over the course of today to 100% and at 3pm disconnected the power.

Now 41 minutes later with minimal usage (read a couple of emails on wifi) the battery is now showing 87%

Most location services and bluetooth disabled etc etc.....

Was fine up until a couple of days ago so will try a full restore otherwise its going back!

Now 85% as i have written this post on my computer.....

Apple is amazing!!! I took it to a store and they gave me a brand new phone. Thanks apple for being so great :)

My 4s was fine for the past weeks that i have the phone. The update installed days ago and then this am i noticed a 10% battery drain per hour in standby mode. i turned off the phone to preserve it as my emergency backup device until i could get to a charger. i am loathe to turn off all functions as that is what makes it a pleasurable device. i previously had a first generation droid and was underwhelmed by battery life. i was really hoping for better from apple and verizon. i am not an iphone convert by any means. any use depletes the thing at an alarming rate. can't wait to see the samsung nexus prime. hopefully better than this bad investment.

I bought a new 4S a week ago and returned it to the store today. Too many issues for a new equipment: battery drain problem, bad network problem, yellowgate problem... It's unacceptable to pay almost 950USD for a phone with all this problems. I'll buy a new one as soon as Apple fix them.

I have done full restore and without any apps so clear phone as from factory. Charged it to 100% and looked after a couple of hours that usage and standby time are almoust equal. It could not be an app running in background. I also turned off wifi and localization service. I tryed almoust every solution that has ben explaned here on this forum but with no succes. Are battery problems related only to phones with 16GB storage?

No, mine had 32GB.

I think the fact that you paid $950USD for a phone is a problem in itself.

Finally someone talking some sense. Everyone keeps saying "But what's the point of having the phone if I can't use all the features!?". That's like saying "I want a Ferrari that gets 40mph while at full throttle".

Apple should do something about the battery drain...I be honest...$600 phone without battery ! ! ! Apple will be soon gone if SHI>T keep on happen like this....Lots people already switch to andriod or galaxy.....

Mine happen after 4th week,,,full charge before I went to bed...next morning battery at 27%...I thought maybe I had something running,,,check everything,,,,Nothing was running....dozen search online for help,,,turn this off turn that off, reset network, fresh restore NOTHING HELP...BATTERY STILL DRAIN...I probably gotta take it to apple see what and how they gotta do about it....APPLE will be gone in NO TIME if SHI.t still keep happen...

JOBS had a really good reputation....DON'T LET HIM DOWN APPLE ! ! ! !

Well said!

I have the same problem. I've turned everything off and even while the phone sleeps the battery drains, fast! Is this just my phone or a global iPhone 4s problem? I might need to take it back...